Short Richter Poems

The birds flew up suddenly, one and all



I straightened the paintings upon my wall...

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Art
uncaged-
musical
monuments in
paint

Cge Painting Cycle by Gerhard Richter

http://www.davidkrutpublishing.com/6380/cage-6-paintings-by-gerhard-richter...

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I want to sleep
With the windows open
On a night that believes 
In winter winds and falling snow
I want to taste your dreams
On a California bed
King sized on the Richter scale...

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*Image of Ashes Volcanoes Eruptions by Pixabay.

A Cause and Effects

Richter scale gets dynamic
Seismic activity is registering
Voluminous debris goes errant
Birdless skies turn smoke-bound
Land beasts scurry about cornered
Afterward, man gasp-nature acts asap

2021 June 28
*HM*
Bite Size Poem no.9
~~Line Gauthier: Judged 2021 July 02...

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when love starts to rattle and shake
there is really no safe place
then your heart splits down the center
a deep, bleeding crevice rendered

pieces left all over the place
tears of sorrow on my face
a quake of horrific magnitude
rocking all that's left of you

love built on a fault-line
can not stand the test of time
7.0 on the Richter
reduced to ash and cinder...

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what do you do
when to one's self you're true
lay down on the guillotine
let them scream off with her head
leaving your soul naked for all to see
under the glare of the red queen
when all who look
only see the dark stage
all the puppets you set
not the woman behind the puppets
not the writer of the page
only the actors chose to act
in the strange little play (c) M.J.Richter...

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Rush of intense flavors
                          Rally passions of taste
                             Rich ecstasies that peak
                                Robust, flushed perfection
                             Rotund shapes do excite
                          Rippling drips, lush fresh bites
                      Richter scale of delights 







  



A Pleiades Poem
9/29/2022...

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Loud discussions never categorized as arguments
Spoken at a register unheard of on most days
Come to fruition here
All that is said falling between a purple unicorn and a 4.2 on the Richter scale
Either niceties to the point of unbelievability
Or disaster to the point of collapsibility
Exchanging highly charged words packaged inside cheerful familial wrappings
The unspoken tradition lives on

Merry Christmas...

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As in the days 
Took of the richter scale
As it measured the quake of waves
Through the conundrum
That I never swear, 
In the light of optimism
Forgot not to mention,
The love you see
I break the take of ocean 
To rip into the pieces of 
Joys and sorrows
To reunite into the fabric of
The game that we gonna enter
Swear my eyes to solace in love
For the mission never ending 
And close my eyes resting in the supreme
Taking the leap of faith....

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There are boats resting on the Idaho shore.
The west coast we once knew is no more.
Frisco and Los Angeles we can no longer see.
They have become places in our history.
Oakland and Fresno are at the bottom of the sea.
They are like the Atlantis of antiquity.
We tried to warn the populace, but to no avail.
It only took one good shake on the Richter Scale.
Goodbye to what we knew as “California”.
Let’s spend some time on the beach in Nevada.
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A little pre-dawn shaking was going on around LA.
Early morning risers got a jolt on St. Patrick’s Day.
This quake went the same way so many had gone before.
Today, it measured on the Richter scale at 4.4.
Nobody was hurt, and no damage had been done.
However, experiencing an earthquake is scary and not fun.
Was it the spirit of St. Patrick romping along the heather?
No, it was just two tectonic plates rubbing together.

From a news story found on aol.com

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